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physiography of

African veld

...have been eroded over a long period of time to produce generally flat plains, dissected occasionally by deeply carved valleys and including relict mountains and scattered steep-sided hills called
kopjes, or koppies. The Highveld plains are thought to have been created by pedimentation, in which the areas around resistant rock are eroded away, leaving mountains of low relief and
kopjes. Large...

Zimbabwe

...have been eroded by wind and water along regular fault lines, leaving some blocks precariously balanced upon others. Elsewhere are found innumerable small rounded granite hillocks known locally as
kopjes. Belts of schist in the basement complex contain the veins and lodes of most of the country’s gold, silver, and other commercial minerals.